October 02, 2007

A Legacy

Today in Legal History

OCTOBER 2, 1967 - Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall Sworn In

Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Before becoming the court's first African-American justice, Marshall led the Legal Defense and Educational Fund of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. He successfully argued Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas before the Supreme Court in 1954.


How disappointed would he be in the NAACP today?

Posted by Vox at October 2, 2007 11:48 AM | general
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